Uncharted 3 Should've Tried Harder

Extra Punctuation: I can think of very few cases where a series hasn't peaked by the third instalment, with the possible exception of the Jason movies 'cos that's when he gets the hockey mask, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the Uncharted series is becoming strained. It's possible that the gameplay tries to be too many things - a stealth climbing brawling shooter with puzzles - but my major problem was the way Uncharted 3 was written.

Yeh there are few reaction animations from the enemies being shot but I think it probably has to do with the audience the game is tailored for. It's made for quite a wide age range and is pretty family friendly. Having the kind of animations you get in Killzone 3 will likely push ratings boards to give it a higher classification.

There are usually quite a lot of things that are discussed when games are being made. Enemy reactions in a shooting game will always be one of them. TBH it didn't really detract too much from my overall experience when playing it since the few flaws it does have are more than compensated by everything else thats done so well.

No game is perfect.If u think u can make a perfect game stop bitching on N4G and go make ur own game. I'm tired of all this nitpicking bias gamers. And b4 u say I'm a ps3 fanboy supporting U3 I'm not, I luv the halo and gears franchise but U3 definitely a top AAA game. U don't thibk U3 will get all those 10's and 9's if the shooting and other things was as bad as people on the internet says it is.

I want to let everyone know when I say this I still think Uncharted 3s campaign was amaing and on par with Uncharted 2s.

I know people are going to hate me for saying this but with them focusing more on multiplayer this time and trying to compete with the big online games like COD, Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield......don't you think it held them back during the development time to focus moe of the script, the character development and the structure of ther story. I mean the thing I hated the most was the fact Elena, Chole and even Charlie, got pushed in the background like Sully did in U2 and the fact an amaing character like Elena was hardly in it.

Hopefully in Uncharted 4 since they've focused on the relationship between Sully and Drake they will now focus on just Nathan and Elena, the flashbacks could fill in the gaps at why they broke up twice, how Drake proposed and what the wedding was like (like did Elena meet Charlie at the wedding). I mean I want to see a game where Nathan and Elena are still together at the beginging and they are both looking for the treasure or lost city without Elena getting pulled into it three or five chapters in. Plus lets face it have we ever had a husband and wife together in a video game where the relationship/marriage dosen't spoil the story.

As long as they don't add a child in Uncharted 4 or Elena getting pregant (or any Uncharted game) then I'll be fine.

I just don't understand why, like you, many people feel that if a developer adds multiplayer to their game, they are somehow skimping on the single player experience. I honestly can say, from my perspective, they were not held back by making a strong mp experience. My reasons: 1. They already the vast majority of the development tools in place from Uncharted 2 (yes, they still had to make some, but the time spent on developing those tools was far less). 2. Working within the same universe/world with the same characters for a third time makes the process move much quicker and smoother. 3. The story in Uncharted 3 is just as good, if not better, than what we were given in Uncharted 2. I too love Elena, but for the fact that you wanted to see more of her in U3, doens't mean the game is lacking in any stretch of the word.

Sadly, in today's world, if you have a shooter game and are going to feature a mp component to it, you have to copy the COD style of play just for the sheer popular-level of that.

Are you saying they devoted more time to the multiplayer? Are you comparing with COD?? Jesus. If they dedicated their time to the multiplayer then why is that the multiplayer has lots of glitches, lagging, and just 4 new maps?? Yes the other maps are recicled from the U2 multiplayer. The campaing is as good as Uncharted 2, the campaing graphics are better than U2, the sounds... everything.

All of a sudden everybody is complaining... if you could make a better game fine but my advice is that stop posting here or stop writing articles on the internet trying to make your opinion important and start producing fine AAA games. Fans always complain. . . I remember when they complain about U2 multiplayer... ND listened and changed it then the fans complained because didnt like it, now U3 multi plays most like the first multy of U2 and people are still complaining... There is no way to keep a whore pleased.

Haters gonna hate. Watch all the goty awards stack. It was a great game with a lot of no name websites and fanboys trying to discredit and nit pick any thing they can find to make it less of a game. No big name website or publication discredited the game or nit picked it so leave it to the bloggers and fanboys to throw mud. Batman nor gears got this much hate. I would list the 50 plus articles in just the last week but it would be a waste of time. Stop hating.

GOTY depends on not just the gameplay but how well the game was crafted. Skyrim is full of bugs, hell the PS3 is the worse....least with Uncharted they crafted this amazing game, not saying it's perfect with the whole aiming problem going on but to be honest it didn't really effect most people. Lets not forget PC fans were a little dissapointed with the PC version of SKyrim and the PC audience was supposed to be their main audience.

Where are these bugs? I've played 75 hours so far, had the game freeze twice. That's it. I've had no other issues on 360. RDR was filled with bugs, but look how big that game was and it still won COUNTLESS amounts of GOTY awards. Skyrim is even bigger, with more content and much more variety, and I've experienced less bugs than in RDR. Uncharted 3 is a linear game, it should be more polished than a massive open world game such as Skyrim. It doesn't matter what anything is suppose to be, you base your judgement on what it is, not what you wanted it to be.

I get that people are entitled to their own opinion...but only when they are not completely un-true or completely ignorant. I actually wanted to see if someone made a reasonable, smart critique of Naughty Dog's game. Sadly, all I found was an article that is trying to just bring hits to the site, nothing more.

Did you even read the article or have any context as to who Yahtzee is?

Yahtzee doesn't do his pointed columns for hits. The guy is deadly accurate and honest when it comes to his opinion on games. Regardless of your opinion of Uncharted, the man provides superb commentary on the state of any great game's flaws.

Uncharted 3 is a great game for which Naughty Dog should be proud of, but I find it hard to disagree with anything Yahtzee mentioned. The story is a mess of unfinished plot devices and set-pieces that serve very little purpose to the story, which becomes ridiculously rehashed towards the end. Uncharted 2 used set-pieces to generate tension and momentum. Nothing in Uncharted 3 tops Uncharted 2's Locomotion chapter, and there-in lies the problem.

ROFL!! The story was fine and this is just one dude's opinion. Many reviewers or gamers don't agree. You can have an opinion, but don't act like his is "honest" and everyone else's(which far outnumber his opinion) aren't any less credible.

I love reading the comment section of that article. They are even arguing about Drake's motivation to kill people in UC3. I mean its a freaking game, its the gamers job to kill the enemies to finish the game. That's the motivation!

As for the writer, I can understand where Yahtzee is coming from but can't we just enjoy simple and fun entertainment once in a while without questioning its merits?

I mean if the game had no charm, I would probably agree but Uncharted is not a boring game, especially not story wise.

There are some developers I could name that should have tried harder. Naughty Dog is NOT one of them. Instead, they crafted a spectacular title, arguably worthy of Game of the Year.

It took some getting used to, but I think that the multiplayer is on par with, if not superior to, that found in UC2; and THAT game's multiplayer saw more of my time than any other in the scope of at least a year. I could be wrong, but I don't feel that Naughty Dog spent too much time on it, given how many hours I lose while playing it. Whatever attention they gave it was well-deserved.

On the other had, I don't feel that the singleplayer is lacking. So far- as I haven't finished it- I feel the game is as fully fleshed out in its campaign as its predecessors. Obviously, not everyone will feel the same way I do, but I feel that Naughty Dog's dedication speaks to me through the quality of the game, and that quality, handily evident, causes me to enjoy the game even more.

Could Naughty Dog have tried harder? It's very possible. But I'm extremely happy with the product they presented.

why do people keep saying that they could have cut the cruise ship section out because he ends up back at the same place. people fail to realize that he was looking for sully on the ship..... and he really doesn't say oh crap that many times. when you are playing as young drake he says it about 4 times and about 11 times total out of a 13 hour game. just sayin

The graphics, gameplay, story, dialogue, all top notch and GOTY worthy. Nobody tells a story as good as Naughty Dog. The only bad thing about the game was that it ended.

I had no problems with the aiming at all, but that's maybe cuz I don't play COD.

Yes it has flaws just like any other great game does. I hated running into things randomly in the game cuz of the invisible borders. Or not being able to explore certain areas because how linear the egame was. That doesn't take away from the epicness of the game.

I beat Uncharted & 2 twice when they were first released and I bought 3 and only beat it once and haven't played it since or the multiplayer. It's not that I didn't like the game, it's just there were way too many games released in that time frame that I wanted to play. It's a killer game though and I enjoyed it more than Gears 3.